FFX's Biggest Skip Ever Was Just Found By Speedrunners 

IMPORTANT: THIS WORKS ON BOTH PS2 AND HD REMASTER. Also, a few of you have mentioned this skip was known already. Clasko skip, the first one mentioned, was already known. MRR skip was the one that was found just 6 days ago and saves 20 minutes Thanks for watching, hopefully my next upload won't take another 2 months!

Tidus’ line soon after this point where he says, “We can’t just skip all that, right?” now just became so much more iconic.

Brilliant explanation, incredible skip. Never thought I'd see the day such a significant skip was found. Amazing job by the community, impossible to count out even more being found in the future at this stage. The game held up to attempts to really break it for so long but it seems awesome progress is being made finally. Great work by everyone involved and very interesting to watch it unfold :)

Ffx is a game near and dear to my heart. It brings me immense joy that 2 decades after its release. It still gets attention. I love the speedrunners. They breathe live into this timeless gem of a game.

It blows my mind how much the FFX speedrun has evolved in the last few years. Bahamut endgame, RNG tracking, and cutscene skipping have all been paradigm shifting, and now we have the first skip which is major enough to require a reroute. I wonder what the next shift will be... For the record, every moving NPC in the game has been looked at for the potential of this kind of trick... but the fact that we missed this shows that even huge skips are easy to miss.

Would be crazy if more skips started popping up, like they did for FF7 during the 2018 - 2021 period. The Golden Age for FFX :)

Now if only a blitzball skip could be found.

Someone quick go tell dansg08! 🍷🗿

this is crazy. shout out to Doc for being the best at explaining this, I felt out of the loop until I saw this.

Absolutely insane nobody’s found this until now

I was there for Chris's stream and it was awesome! Especially when he was able to repeat the skip a second time 😁

It should be called The Terra Skip to give credit for such a good find!

Awesome video. Was already waiting for it since the tweet :D Also great stuff for their community and the speedrun community in generel :D

NEW SWELLY!!! im here for it, also its wild how these skips are found YEARS after the game comes out. incredible

I see FFX, i click on FFX. Simple philosophy

That's always amazing when a major skip is discovered in a videogame !! ^^ Thanks for the video, greetings from Belgium in Europe.

awesome video 20 mins is a nuts amount of time almost as nuts as how quick u got this video out

FFX still looking big to this day, after almost 20 years, amazing.

Now this is damn cool. Such an impressive skip, and well explained too

this is really cool I haven't seen a ffx speedrun in a while but glad new tricks are still being found

Sheeesh hyped to see where this leads future runs. I sense many breakthroughs on the horizon 🙏

I love that the speedrun community is like 200 people lol

It is kind of baffling that something like this would take 20 years to discover. In most popular games glitch hunters will analyze every pixel of every wall that stands in their way to find out if it can be clipped through. Finding a way past an invisible wall when there are NPCs that can push you nearby seems like the kind of thing that a lot of people would have tried long ago.

Hi, peppy here. Figured I'd chip in, being one of the people that's attempting (not too successfully, I'll admit) to reverse-engineer this game. Skips in FFX usually come with zero global repercussions because events/scripting in this game are done on a per-area basis. The game has no concept of a 'global progression state' other than one integer denoting storyline progression, but there are plenty of instances where it isn't checked against because the game, rightly, assumes you could not have done a sequence break. If you can break through the invisible boundary preventing you from leaving an area in a direction you're not meant to, this usually results in a successful skip; all that is left is to reroute. Not that this is trivial by any stretch of the imagination, mind you; but skips in this game, when found, just work, and undoubtedly more will surface in the future when we develop the tools we need to inspect event scripts and maps in-depth- an effort that's been in progress for quite the merry while now. As robust as this game is, one arbitrary memory write/execution glitch would kill it. Only two memory values need be written to perform arbitrary map warps. In most instances, the events of the map will start as if you had made it there legitimately. Obviously, it's quite unlikely we find an ACE method, but I'm just saying the veil is thinner in actuality than it seems. God only knows what's in store for FFX next.

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Swelly with the super quick upload! And shout outs to the LOCAL MAN!

This is unreal. I wonder if there will ever be a day where the Speedrunners find a way to go from Macalania Woods to skip to the Calm Lands.

Actually tried this with my last play of FFX glitch hunting but talked to Clasko instead trying to get pushed, gave up after a couple of hours though but feel redeemed to know I wasn't too far off 😋

damn just watched a gdq speed run of this the other week and it really made me wanna play it again lol. now this is just nuts.

I'm on my umpteenth playthrough of this game, have been playing it since it was the very first game I got with my brand new PS2 22 years ago 🧓 and the fact that there's still such a dedicated community and fanbase for my favorite game of all time, even after 2 decades is just incredibly wholesome to me and makes my heart warm.

Just had this pop up randomly on main feed. I think it's really awesome people are still finding ways throughout the years to change the playstyle meta. 🎉❤

Was always curious to see if a skip like this could happen. Puts the game that much closer to getting times shorter than a few hours one would hope, cause maybe this glitch is usable in other places

This is such a cool and honestly insane find, i'll be trying this out in my next NSG save. That said, my favourite item during the whole playthrough was always TKO, so not getting the chance for that early on is going to be a big change to potential runs where I try this, super cool to know though, as Gui was pretty much always my least favourite boss fight just due to the length of it

Right when I start getting into the game after 20 dang years as well. What a simple skip! It's always those really simple, sort of strange ones that slide right under everyone's radar, rather than the overly complicated ones. haha.

Part of the reaosn I think the run has been so long after all these years is that fewer people are looking for skips because of it's reputation as an unbreakable game. The more skips people find, the quicker and more manageable the run gets, the more likely it is that additonal skips will be discovered.

My favorite game! FFX never gets these “Biggest skip found!” videos what a great day!

Interesting! A skip that was one thought to not exist, and in one of my Favorite FF games? Wont be long I feel before sub 8 hour is not only possible, but achieved!

This is awesome. Great skip and great video.

I would like to mention those who are new to FFX in particular might wanna know something very important. You can't skip cutscenes. Even in the remaster. Square seems to never ever ever give you an option to skip them in games that didn't already have them when it comes to Final Fantasy. So for every single game from 1-10, you're enduring every single one of them. They didn't start letting you skip until *12.* So if you fuck up a run by dying or missing a big skip, you're going to have to keep mashing X to skip half-finished dialogues and have to sit there for every single FMV. Again. And again. And again. It's not like the Kingdom Hearts re-releases where 1 added a cutscene skip and all other games let you skip. You're dealing with all of them, take it or leave it. That's why FFX's Any% reads more like your entire single day off from work than a speedrun. ...And that's just the Any%, which tries to find every skip possible. Have fun looking at 100%.

The only opportunity to obtain a weapon with the initiative ability would be from the quctuar in the Thunder Plains. Don't know how it will affect the seeds by having that be the priority, but it's an option.

Mind blowing the kind of stuff speedrunners discover in this field. A true display of creativity and ingenuity sometimes.

This game's 20 years old, how are people still learning new things about it!?

This was a nice RU-vid recommendation. Thanks for the video Dude

22 years and it still gives novelty😊

Back in the day the game was released, in one of the playthrus I apparently witnessed some sort of a glitchbor bug, I encountered cactuars (or qactuars?) at thunder plains and they dropped a gear for kimahri that had no encounters trait. I was able to waltz my way freely after that. But the cacti are supposed to appear there only lot later and I don't think they're even supposed to drop no enc trait but they did. Color me surprised. And I have played the game multiple times afterwards and no such events occuring ever again in thunder plains. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh damn, this reminds me of that pseudo-New Game+ trick from Final Fantasy X International. I didn't know there was more of these!

I did this on accident once on a playthrough as a kid and it blew my mind, but I've never been involved in speedrunning or anything like that, I figured everyone who plays this game a ton knew about this. (the Clasko skip not the MMR skip.)

new swllman vid! LETS GOOO

Still waiting for the true holy grail of FFX skips to be done in a run; djose temple skip!

Honestly players that find these skips are unreal that is awesome. So final fantasy 10 mushroom rock road terra skip. Has a good ring to it. Awesome that u also say who found it coz they help change the speed running of these games. What a amazing skip.

Nice, on my birthday, no less! Keep up the good work, speedrunning community.

That's such a huge timesave, especially if you were already doing cutscene remover already

What a skip. Next up: How THIS NPC pushes runners through the entire game!

I was there when it happened 😂 9:01

People like to imagine that FF as a series looked like the 8bit games just 2 decades ago but in reality FF10 already was around. Really puts things into perspective.

Spamming to get passed NPCs has been known about for decades. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more

I enjoyed this, Is there any streamer that constantly try to discover new skips in games?

Wow i haven't seen the wheel of time symbol in forever in candid context.

ffx graphics are fucking unreal 22 years old

This is so exciting! Just another reason to play the best game ever created again

Speedruns are always evolving which is pretty cool.

Thanks!

Great video. This is amazing.

hi, new here. i'm so distracted by how pronounces the "x" in "ffx" saying "f f 'ecks" instead of "f f ten" lmao. this video was really interesting, i'll check out some others. thanks!

i wish we could speedrun the time to a Final Fantasy X remake... 😢

Sooo I watched Metroid Prime stuff and a Prime video dropped, I watched FFX stuff the other day and this drops... Do I have magical powers or just incredible timing?!

it is now possible to beat FFX with your only actions being default-targeted default attacks *without* doing blitzball for 10 hours for teleport spheres

Yo Doctor Swellman! Have a nice day.

thank you for putting in the Illusion soundtrack. that is my favorite one from this game that really takes me back to some great times

So what happens if you try to backtrack to Mushroom Rock Road after you do the skip and trigger cutscenes further down the line? Do things break? Obviously not a problem for Any% speedrunners, but I can't help but be curious.

How in the world do people do these things? Damn, kudos to them.

0:28 What? Did not know that was possible. on the other hand we miss out Items and EXP :D but awesome for speedrunners.

The only game that i wanna replay again but just no time i skipped so many boss even one summoning 3 sister

I'm seeing the "FF" story without any retell videos, and I decided to start by the "FFs" that influenced "KH" the most. And this is the weird part. I never saw "FF X" in my life until a few days ago, but watching it made me feel nostalgic (not even "Kingdom Hearts" managed to make me feel like that). Watching it, was like seeing those old football animes I used to love as a child and "Fatal Frame" as I was experiencing them for the firsr time again. "FF X" was like meeting a new passion and an old friend at the same time. Is such thing even possible ? Has someone ever felt something similar to this ?

Cool fact that running soldier has the same voice actor as robin from teen titans go! Alot of years apart

I never got past Yunalesca as a ten (approximately) year old. I feel like maybe playing the game again, at age 27, and finally beating it.

Im really proud of ffx community always find something interesting new

What happens when you come back like after airship? Will script loop and youll be able to do pseudo NG+ from Mushrom Rock? Or events play out normally?

Hey doc, love the vid, what a find! Wondering, do you reach out to the content creators that you showcase in your vids, for permission to use their content? or is it more 'fyi - your content is going in my video, is that ok + ref their names / vids / details in the video and in comments?' - asking as couldn't think of another way to contact you + researching for a video that includes other people's ffx footage. Cheers, JG.

Well, MKDD was eventually broken, so I'm not terribly surprised that even FFX is finally starting to be broken. Still, great find! I was always curious about this area, despite my not being an X speedrunner, simply because I find this part of the story incredibly annoying.

I’m not a speed runner but I find the mechanics so interesting. I thought it was funny because I was just thinking about playing through this.

holy baloney! Kinda wanna use that in regular gameplay now, mushroom rock is such a snoozefest of exposition.

Absolutely MASSIVE

15.05.2023 I was here!!

Im not a fan of speedrunners, specially in FFX, but this is really cool

This is like the Muse-Matilda glitch in Suikoden 2

My first thougth 1 min in the video was but wont you be losing tko and iniative? And turns out its exactly what happens.

I tried this skip with this exact runner NPC when I originally played FFX, but could only get the runner to push me to the side. I wish there was more explanation about how to get the runner to push u forward through the invisible barrier, instead of to the side. I remember spending hours on it and convinced myself that it was impossible to get the NPC to push you anywhere except left/right. What's the secret sauce?!

amazing find!!

My question is, once the skip is performed, what happens to the GUI boss fights? Do they become completely skipped and unplayable on return visits, or are still there?

Can you imagine what else can be skipped with this technique

Nice, it was discovered for my birthday lol

Holy moly!

Just need Djose Skip to become real now too. Let's go.

Will Closetowar return?

im still getting over my FF ex too man

Mandela Effect hitting me hard right now because I could swear I seen videos of someone doing this in the original PS2 game

What!? That whole section seemed like wayyyy longer than 20 minutes 😮

Wow what an awesome discovery! Maybe I need to learn the run now :D Had that itch time to time. It's not the best possible speedgame, but it is one of the damndest masterpieces in all of gaming.

CHRIS! saw it live lol